Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/01 04:59:15
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Foodbme: The issue is that they sign in under a different name each time. That name gets banned. They sign in again using XYZ or whatever. I have personally got rid of better than 100 kitchen peddlers. Sometimes up to 3-4 per day.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/01 14:44:40
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Quite frankly Mar, we are really getting tired of them as every morning I have to go through all post and threads to glean them of their nonsense. They have zero chance of selling British kitchens in the USA. I think they must have some type of automated device doing it because all of them have different ISP addresses and all advertise the same damn thing.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/01 18:56:40
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FriedClamFanatic

Alas, probably it's just best to ignore them, although I like that idea of calling the ##.too bad you can't do it collect

Not a bad idea. What if everybody on Roadfood called them collect in England on pretense of a kitchen and then complained about their behavior. That could possibly solve the issue. A couple of hundred thousand collect calls would probably get their attention.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/02 11:19:49
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I think ASP Playground 3x might support the ability to delete all messages with a specific string in it. Their phone number or other contact info would qualify. You'll see the question asked on the following page ... unfortunately as I am not registered on the ASP forum I can not see the specific reply. Might be worth looking into though. The ASP forum is ...http://www.aspplayground....&searchterm=filter Note that I've used "filter" as the search term to produce that page.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/06 06:55:00
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Deleted ten kitchen peddlers today. They have a new technique. They stack them. You delete one and you think you got them. Right behind it is another and then another and then another. Gotta be some type of automated device with different IP addresses and different names.

Thanks to some who have flagged them. It took me a while to fine them.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/14 09:07:02
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This forum as well as perhaps thousands more are being flooded by the UK kitchen spammers. I usually delete about 8-12 daily and it is somewhat difficult as they stack their spams. I guess I miss some as it is time consuming going through each thread daily. As of this time, this forum as well as well as hundreds or thousands more are struggling with how to eliminate them. Tony has suggested not allowing anyone on without permission. That is difficult if not impossible to do because we have so many new posters daily. Please bear with us as we try to resolve this issue.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/14 22:17:16
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Is the volume of new membership applications so large that it would be difficult to implement an introduction requirement that the applicant composes a couple of sentences or paragraph on why they would like to join and a bit about themselves for the account admissions moderatore to vet? That's done on a lot of boards. Most of these nusiances won't take the time to do that. Also some boards have a new member introduction area that is mandatory to post on after inital validation before access to general posting is allowed.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/14 22:45:13
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There are some things that I believe we can do, however, the moderators do not have access to the inner workings of the forum and therefore lack the ability to implement or attempt some of the things that may rid us of this plague.

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/14 23:30:12
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In the greater scheme of things, they are annoying but mostly easily ignored.

Putting in all sorts of "tech-TSA" devices is only gonna bring this place to its knees, and requiring folks to "prove" themselves by filing out an application to join will kill any new members, or at least most.

Think of it as you are walking through a less than stellar city seeking out the scrumptious place you have heard about. A few beggars are crying "Baksheesh!..ALMS!".....Ignore

Alas, although they get nothing from the folks here ( I hope!!!!!!!!!!), it also costs them nothing to try

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/15 00:52:15
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Those aren't high tech ideas FCF, pretty much SOP on many boards short of DISCUS or Facebook log-on authentications which I would consider more TSA-like. It shouldn't really affect advertising or site ranking as traffic is pretty much the same since anyone has access to the pages without having to log in. As far as bringing this place to it's knees, the latest upgrade did a far better job then any authentication procedure. As a group, we're legendary for our inhospitable attitude to newcomers anyways. Curmudgeonous indeed!

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/20 20:21:01
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Sundancer7 This forum as well as perhaps thousands more are being flooded by the UK kitchen spammers. I usually delete about 8-12 daily and it is somewhat difficult as they stack their spams. I guess I miss some as it is time consuming going through each thread daily. As of this time, this forum as well as well as hundreds or thousands more are struggling with how to eliminate them. Tony has suggested not allowing anyone on without permission. That is difficult if not impossible to do because we have so many new posters daily. Please bear with us as we try to resolve this issue.

I've been flagging the posts; is that productive or counterproductive?

Re:Get Rid Of The British "Kitchen Peddlers"2013/05/21 23:14:59
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Ya know.........although the "poster" is different, they all seem to lead back to the same company and website. Perhaps one phone call there ( Gawd knows where you'll end up....Bangladesh?) might solve this. Especially if you know some 13 year old who knows how to bombard their site with inquiries if they don't desist